Matt Charney's Discussions

I don't think JDs are dead (sorry, Zappos) or even ineffective or obsolete. They're just written like crap. So I figured we could help. I'll be choosing one JD a month to take from snoozer to sexy…Continue

I was playing with the "My Followers" feature related to LinkedIn Publisher (so still fairly small user base and relatively new) and got back a really weird code screen within their site. I don't…Continue

I was kind of surprised when my friends over at SHRM reached out to me with a few questions about social recruiting; after all, SHRM is decidedly not a recruiting-focused organization, and that same membership that seems to actively work to block their employees social media access also is, in my experience,…

I’m pretty relaxed about rules in general, and my biggest role as Managing Editor within the Recruiting Blogs community is mostly to referee when the trolls come out from under the bridge (or away from their contingency firm bullpens). The coolest thing about this site is it’s actually pretty self-sustaining and organic. But sometimes, the deus ex machina factor kicks in and I've got to intervene.

People have been foretelling the end of time since pretty much the beginning of it, and most of them are crazy – the ring a bell, stand on the corner in Times Square with a sandwich board and sackcloth kind of crazy.